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* [[Badass Boast]]: Japan's lightning-fast dealer of death.
* [[The Archer]]
* [[Katanas Are Just Better]]: Their experts certainly thought so. The katana was said to be a "two body blade", as it [[Exactly What It Says
* [[Blade
* [[Carry a Big Stick]]: The Kanabo.
* [[Jidai Geki|Sengoku Period]]: The test was based on the samurai of this time frame, fighting more on foot than on horseback and wearing more practical gusoku type armor rather than a heavy and complex o-yoroi.
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The Sicilian crime family who flourished in the 1920s New York. Appeared first in Episode 5 fighting against the Yakuza.
* [[Awesome but Impractical]]: The Molotov Cocktail turned out to be one in the fight.
* [[Boring but Practical]]: The baseball bat may not have been the flashiest weapon (especially compared to the Yakuza's [[Fighting
* [[Badass Boast]]: Deadly enforcers on the mean streets of New York.
* [[Improvised Weapon User]]: Two of their weapons are [[Batter Up|baseball bat]] and icepick.
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* [[Cold War]]
* [[Gulf War]]: The technology and tactics displayed on the show were those of [[G Bs]] from around roughly this time.
* [[The War
=== Spetsnaz ===
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=== Shaka Zulu ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: The fierce African warlord who built a Zulu army that killed two million enemies and transformed a continent.
* [[Blade
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
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* [[Badass Boast]]: Hardline religious extremists who back their beliefs with bullets.
* [[Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan]]: Many of them "made their bones" resisting this.
* [[The War
== Tropes about Season 2 warriors ==
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* [[Badass Boast]]: The top-secret paramilitary arm of the German police known as the most lethal counter-terrorism squad in the world.
* [[Badass Crew]]: What the GSG-9 are trained to be; they completed their first ever deployment in under 7 minutes with no civilian casualties.
* [[The War
=== Attila the Hun ===
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* [[Hand Cannon]]: Vlad's special weapon is literally called this.
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
* [[Impaled
* [[Irony]]: The same Turks who beat and tortured Vlad when he was a child fell by his hand when he was an adult.
* [[The Magnificent]]: in format, though it also doubles as a [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|name to run away from really fast]]
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=== Mongol ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: The vicious Asian horse warriors who used pure savagery to conquer more territory in the 13th century than any empire in history.
* [[Blade
* [[Horse Archer]]
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* [[Cold War]]
* [[Gulf War]]
* [[The War
=== Israeli Commando ===
* [[Badass Boast]]: Israel's top secret assassins, who fend off terrorists dedicated to destroying the Jewish nation.
* [[Badass Israeli]]: [[Captain Obvious|Do we really need to say it]]?
* [[Arab
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* [[Cold War]]
* [[Gulf War]]
* [[The War
* [[The Korean War]]: The situation described on the show would technically be a continuation of this.
=== North Korean Special Operations Force ===
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* Iran-[[Iraq War]]
* [[Gulf War]]
* [[The War
=== Pol Pot ===
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* [[Gold Fever]]: At the end of his match against Ivan, {{spoiler|Cortes helps himself to the Tsar's purse after killing him.}}
* [[Historical Domain Character]]
* [[Only in It For
* [[Sanity Has Advantages]]: This is {{spoiler|played straight}} in Hernan Cortes VS Ivan the Terrible, and is one of the biggest reasons why Cortes {{spoiler|won the fight}}.
* [[Swiss Army Weapon]]: The Alabarda has a pike on top for thrusting, a hook on the back for dismounting mounted opponents/pulling invaders off ladders, and an axe head for cutting.
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* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: {{spoiler|Technically lost the fight, but then the vampire gets infected...}}
* [[Oh Crap]]: Cited as an actual X-Factor. They are physically incapable of feeling any human emotions, such as fear.
* [[Our Zombies Are Different]]: [[Dawn of the Dead (
* [[The Virus]]: Stated as the reason the zombies need to feed on living flesh is to pass this on.
* [[Zerg Rush]]: Their primary tactic is to swarm and overwelm the opponent by sheer numbers. This is why they decided to pit an entire horde of almost-200 zombies vs 3 vampires.
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* [[Oh Crap]]: Cited as an actual X-Factor. As powerful as they are, they are still capable of feeling human emotions, like fear. Sure enough, the vampires {{spoiler|freeze up, stare, and then retreat upon seeing a comrade get torn to pieces and then eaten.}}
* [[One-Man Army]]: A fair fight was considered near 200 zombies vs. 3 vampires because one on one the vampires would win every time thanks to being able to [[One-Hit Kill]] zombies thanks to their superior strength. {{spoiler|The vampires ''win''.}}
* [[Our Vampires Are Different]]: [[
* [[Pyrrhic Victory]]: {{spoiler|Technically won the fight, but then infection starts to set. Though the experts couldn't decide on rather becoming a Zombie Vampire was this trope or [[Cursed
* [[Rise From Your Grave]]: Three vampires rise up from their coffins as soon as the fight begins.
* [[The Smurfette Principle]]: Followed it in regards to the female vampire.
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